Load and Secure Beams for Transport

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MECHANIC ADVICE NEEDED....BUILDING AN ATV/UTV BRIDGE...AND MORE!

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What happens here

Due to the length and weight of the I-beams, a strategic loading method is used. One end of each beam is lifted manually, and the opposite end is guided into the truck bed. With multiple people, the beams are levered and slid into place, extending beyond the tailgate. Once loaded, a heavy-duty ratchet strap is used to firmly secure the I-beams to the truck bed, ensuring they remain stable and safe during the drive to the creek.

Goal: The extracted metal I-beams are carefully loaded into the bed of a pickup truck and securely fastened to prevent shifting during transport to the bridge site.

Tools and materials

Pickup truck
Ratchet strap
Work gloves

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use or try to use to make our bridge and this is just the start of it so we're going to load these guys on the truck these beams are almost too long for the truck that's the problem we're running into or ever hear scratching our heads about it they're almost too long for the truck got a little more head scratching to do so originally I thought these beams here were 16 feet long but it looks like there's somewhere in the neighborhood of 18 feet long which posed a problem and getting them in the truck so we've got one big heavy-duty strap and one medium kind of light duty kind of not so fun strap and we don't have

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